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Tue, 23 Aug 2005

The Great Rails Blog-off

It's largely died down now but there was a great bit of back-and-forth about Rails either being overhyped or great stuff. Justin Gehtland, Ted Neward, Dion Almaer and Glenn Vanderburg all jumped in and commented. I'm sure there are more posts out there I missed!

This is more than a great opportunity to watch a few folks fire friendly volleys back and forth. Read the threads and learn a little about what these guys value in a web framework. What do you they see in Rails that they don't see anywhere else? Or everywhere else? :) These are all very smarty guys. What do they value?

I thought about putting these in chronological order, but instead I sorted by person. Enjoy!

Ted gets things started
http://blogs.tedneward.com/2005/08/13/NFJS+Austin+And+Rails.aspx
http://blogs.tedneward.com/2005/08/18/More+On+Rails.aspx
http://blogs.tedneward.com/2005/08/20/Rails+Finis.aspx
 
Justin's posts
ttp://www.relevancellc.com/blogs/?p=60
http://www.relevancellc.com/blogs/?p=61
 
Dion's entries
http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/001027.html
http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/001031.html


Glenn's
http://www.vanderburg.org/Blog/Software/Development/ted_on_rails.rdoc

Of course nobody mentioned what I think is the best part of Rails. It's a complete, tip-to-tip Tracer Bullet Development process. Rails creates an entire, working system for you that you can add to as you build your application... and people are loving it!

Jared

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International book reviews

Ship It!, thanks to the Pragmatic Programmer guys and O'Reilly, is selling all around the world. And because I'm a first time author and apparently have too much free time, I look for (and sometimes find) reviews in other languages.

Since I can't read Japanese or French very well, I rely on the Google Language Tools to do my translations for me. Of course, Google provides more humour than real information. :) I get a good feel for what the review says, but it's very entertaining to see how the translations get warped.

For instance, this this page talks about Tracer Bullet Development. With the magic of Google however, the page now says:

The eyeball is the TBD which is not the TDD. With saying, they are not eye new forcing ones separately. The mark which " tries collecting old method, to modernism " it is technique.

I'm pretty sure the original is saying the Tracer Bullet Development isn't Test Driven Development, and is in fact not a new technique at all, but a collection of existing techniques. Maybe...

But I like the way Google said it better. :)

I also found a Frech review. Here is the translation.

Here's an Italian review by Filippo Diotalevi with a Googlized translation. Fortunately for me, Filippo has an English version on his personal site.

And finally, here's another classic

Don't you think? it is appealing, you try to try reading by all means.

What can I say? :) I agree.

Jared

UPDATE: sorry for the edits... I was trying to get this blog post done (this morning) in time to get my daughter to school and before I went to my regular job. :( Next time I'll just hold the post until I get the URLs closer to right! -jrr

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Ship It! shirt winners...

I got a note today from Hiroshi Sakurai, one of our shirt contest winners. I loved his note:

Hi Jared

I received ShipIt! T-shirt yesterday.
It is cool!

Today is the first day to wear the T-shirt to work.
I can't see what it says on my back while wearing it, but I love it.

Thanks fot the nice T-shirt

So we decided to post a better version of the shirt! :) With this new and improved shirt you can wear it ~and~ read it at the same time! It still has the Key Practices on the back of the shirt, but it also has them printed upside down on the front.

Have a great day!

Jared

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